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The Holocene correlates with the last maximum axial tilt of the Earth towards the Sun, and corresponds with the rapid proliferation, growth, and impacts of the human species worldwide, including all of its written history, technological revolutions, development of major civilizations, and overall significant transition towards urban living in ...
25 paź 2024 · Holocene Epoch, younger of the two formally recognized epochs that constitute the Quaternary Period and the latest interval of geologic time, covering approximately the last 11,700 years of Earth’s history.
The Holocene Epoch. To observe a Holocene environment, simply look around you! The Holocene is the name given to the last 11,700 years* of the Earth's history — the time since the end of the last major glacial epoch, or "ice age."
25 paź 2024 · Holocene Epoch - Climate, Biota, Human Impact: In formerly glaciated regions, the Holocene has been a time for the reinstitution of ordinary processes of subaerial erosion and progressive reoccupation by a flora and fauna.
18 lip 2018 · Human history has been fundamentally shaped by the climate of the Holocene, the warm interval since the last ice age. The Holocene encompasses roughly the past 12,000 years, during which human societies emerged from hunter-gatherer origins, developed agriculture, and then cities and states.
Holocene Epoch, formerly Recent Epoch, Latest interval of the Earth’s geologic history, dating from about 11,700 years ago to the present. The younger of the two epochs that constitute the Quaternary Period, the Holocene follows the last glacial stage of the Pleistocene Epoch.
1 sty 2024 · Examples include ultra-high resolution sediment scanning of varved sediments (Zander et al., 2021) and the study of organisms that preserve a daily growth increment, such as land snails and giant clams (Yan, 2020, Dong et al., 2022, Liu et al., 2022).
